US History
Find questions about the important events of the United States of America from the US Civil War to US Presidents.
Total questions 478400
ID1266700328
added Which one is closer to California entrence the red wood trees or the gold rush in sanfrancisco to US History 10 minutes ago
Annahallo34 [2]
made this change to the answer of Where was the first Thanksgiving feast celebrated by the Pilgrims 30 minutes ago
Annahallo34 [2]
made this change to the answer of Where was the first Thanksgiving feast celebrated by the Pilgrims 30 minutes ago
Jphelm (supervisor) [370]
merged the question Why is watergate important into What was Watergate 49 minutes ago
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
The Treaty of Paris in 1783
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Jefferson needed the New Orleans port for the people of the frontier to transfer their products down the Mississippi River....
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Certainly! It's a huge part of history. I still can't understand how some people don't believe it really happened. It was the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Konrad Adenauer.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The American Fighting Man.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The debate over slavery and states' rights had become so intense by 1860 that the South was ready to break away altogether, and...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
People got gold from the river. It would be very helpful, concerning the question, to have an idea about which gold rush.There...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
[Term originated in English around 1870-75 from Japanese meiji, earlier meidi, "enlightened peace," from Middle Chinese,...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It does somewhat. Some of the same animosities that contributed to WWI lead to WWII. And the milltary-industrial complex built up...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
British merchant Peter Durand made an impact on food preservation with his 1810 patenting of the tin can. Actually it was a...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
mostly british greed, because Britain wanted to rule over north America, using their own laws and government
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Becuase it was one factor that led to the immediate entry of the United States into World War I and its delcartion of war against...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
SELLING SOULS FOR SUGAR OCCURED IN THE 16TH 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
King Carl XVl The king of Sweden during both world wars was Gustaf V The prime ministers where: Hjalmar...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
He changed the minds of people and gave blacks some sort of freedom in the way that they had more privliges and rights.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
THE TRUE AMERICANS LIVING IN THER AREA WOULD BE THE NATIVES.IT WAS THEIR LAND THEY WERE DEFENDING.I TAKE IT THAT YOU MEANT THE...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
There are such things as meerschaum pipes, but I do not believe an exact pipe like the one in National Treasure exists.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The term is "Ex Post Facto"
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Dwight Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of allied forces in Europe during the latter phases of WW2. He later served two terms as...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
Labor unions were formed to protect the rights of the individual workers. Alone, one worker could not demand anything, because he...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
"The Cartwright family lived on the Ponderosa." (original answer) My answer: While the Cartwright family did live on their...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
At a meeting with Stalin at Teheran, Iran, late in 1943, FDR and Churchill discussed the tactics for fighting the war and what...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The Great Plains lacked everything that Americans considered necessary for survival---access to water, wood in the form of...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
If you had searched this website you would have found that this question has already been answered.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
None. Leif supplied his own ship and supplies.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It was named after the British King at the time the settlement was established - about 1607. He was King James I of England and...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
presidential votes happen on national election day, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. That date changes each...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Manifest Destiny
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It's one of these The Emancipation Proclamation The Treaty of Ghent Manifest Destiny The Monroe Doctrine The Emancipation...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The first ten (10) amendments are called the Bill of Rights. They are found in the Constitution of the United States, beginning...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Power is divided in 3 different ways. The first is by Seperation of Powers and Checks and balances. This divides the government...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
Lamar, Missouri
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) of the United States Constitution standardized the voting age to 18. It was adopted...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
cooper church amendment
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Georgia was State number four.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Al Capone was indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion in 1931, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
dont know
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Most pioneers used native timber to build their homes. However, in the plains states where timber was scarce, pioneers used grass...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The French are the ones who immigrated to Detroit in the early 1800s.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Barack Hussein Obama
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The more you hold out of telling your parents the more it will harm you. Recently i have failed an Algebra test and in my family...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The actual battle was not really significant, but what it did was unite the Texans into a better army and give them a cry to...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Considering the first comic book is considered to have been The Yellow Kid produced in 1896, no where in 1895.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Pittsburgh Nation hired Harold W. Arlin as the nations first full-time Radio Announcer. Announcing the Pirates 8-5 victory over...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The Adams-Onis Treaty
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Well, he probably did not care too much about them when he slashed their payrolls to get his railroad through the great...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Korean War The Korean War, which lasted from June 25, 1950 until a cease-fire on July 27, 1953 (as of 2009, there has been no...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize • Needs Answer
Sojourner truth was a slave. She was famous because she made a speech called 'Ain't I A women?' and helped free black slaves all...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
March 6, 1836 damon says hi contact me at 2145514338
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
No, Daniel Boone was not at the Alamo. He died on his homestead in Missouri in 1820. Davie Crockett and Jim Bowie died at the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Freedom of speech: You can say what you want.(As long as it is not slander.) Freedom of press: You can print what you want in a...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
They ran out of ammunition.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
http://dailyphototrends.blogspot.com/2007/11/richie-roberts-photos.html Scroll down and viola!
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
John (a black) * - See note below Juan Abamillo -San Antonio R. Allen Mills DeForrest Andross -Vermont, San Patricio, Texas ...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
From Wikipedia: Delegates are the people who will decide the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Delegates from...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
North Korea never helped South Korea because North Korea is a communist country and S. Korea is a democratic country. Thats...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Booth was originally plotting to abduct Abraham Lincoln. He started his planning sometime in the summer of 1864. He actually...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Boston, MA (see link) The first free public school was established by Benjamin Syms in the city of Hampton, VA on February 12,...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Congress can decide whether or not to show the US the newfound unicorns that George Washington bred on may 10th 2098 =-{D>
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The British sacked Washington DC and set the White House on fire during the War of 1812. First Lady Dolly Madison saved many...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast and the Mexican state of Baja California to the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Jamestown was established.... Jamestown was established....
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Bendict Arnold, he tried to lead an invasion of Canada, was defeated when his reinforcements did not come, was wounded, then...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Hordes of people looking for an opportunity to get rich. This includes the American-born and European-born population from the...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia was the capital up until the state of Virginia complained during the Federalist...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
one thing that happened in the 60's is Elvis Presley released songs
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Hoover began the New Deal. Roosevelt payed farmers to plow crops to prop up prices.7 Million People starved to death.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Estebam Dorantes was the first African in American. He was born in Morroco. He first came to America in 1527 as part of an...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
It's usually referred to as the Spanish Flu Epidemic.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Of the 8 US Presidents who died while in office, 4 were assasssinated: Abraham Lincoln (16th President) died April 15, 1865, one...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The US lost the war and was defeated by the North Vietnamese and its allies.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Jeremiah S. Black under Buchanan, and William H. Seward under Lincoln.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The US flu epidemic occurred in the WWI time period (1918). Military personnel began dying overseas; those that made it home...
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Benjamin Franklin
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
The Federal Election Commission.
Popularity: 8 • Tools: Recategorize
Tariff wrong sir, the question is what is the name of it and that is boycott by rod^uhm, you rod, are wrong. the answer is...
Popularity: 7 • Tools: Recategorize